Learning about Language教案公开课一等奖

选修9 unit3 Australia

Learning about language

教学设计

By Yuan Juan

From DangY ang No.1 Senior High School Teaching goals: 1 .get the students to discover useful words and expressions and keep key words and sentences in mind.

2. Get the students to learn to use the following important new words and phrases freely：owing to , adequate, associate, defence,

3. Develop students' sense of cooperation and teamwork. Teaching methods:

task-based activities and practice Teaching procedures: Step 1

Lead-in Review the key words from the reading passage and translate several sentences. Step 2

discover useful words and expressions Task1:Complete the sentences with words below. backgrounds

nation

citizens

tolerance

Aboriginal homelands migrants respect The majority of Australians are _________________ from many different ____________________. In fact, the only _______ whose ancestors have lived here for more than 200 hundred years are the __________ people. Most Australians believe that having people from so many different ________________________________ creates _______ and _________ and makes Australia a stronger _______ and a more interesting place to live.

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Task 2:Read the paragraph below, paying particular attention to the underlined words, some of which may be new to you. Try to work out the definitions of these words and write them down in the second column. Then check your answer using an English-English dictionary and write the dictionary definitions in the third column. The first migrants arrived in Australia after a long voyage on small sailing ships. Life was very tough at first because they did not have adequate equipment or food. One of the first things they did was to dig the soil and sow vegetable seeds. However, it wasn’t easy to grow enough food for everyone and in the first few years they faced starvation.Despite all the hardships of those early years, many of the migrants succeeded in building a good life for themselves. In the early days there were not nearly as many women migrants as there were males, so many of the men remained bachelors. Many dreamed of having a wife who would share their life and work alongside them as they built houses and established farms. Within a reasonably short time some had established large sheep farms and began to export meat and wool back to England. We know a lot about these early years of European settlement because most migrants corresponded with their families at home and many of their letters still survive. These early settlers owed their survival to hard work and determination to succeed.

Word Dictionary definition migrant

adequate

sow

hardship

Task 3:You will find it easier to learn English words in clusters. Read aloud the following words and write down as many words related to them as possible. Compare your lists with a partner. Example:

rain, rainbow, rainfall, rainy, raindrop, raincoat, rainforest, rain water

rain tax home rust time night autonomy defend tolerate celebrate nation city birth associate reserve way 第

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Step 3

revise useful structures

Task 1: Read through this paragraph and underline all the predicatives.

A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that he was a good jumper, the zoo authorities increased the height of the fence around him, but, the next morning, the kangaroo was out of his enclosure again. So the keepers’

solution was to build an even higher barrier. However, the next morning, the result was disappointing --- the kangaroo was not in his enclosure. The authorities, being desperate, increased the height of the fence again and again and it was soon over forty metres high.A camel in the next enclosure asked the kangaroo, “How high do you think they’ll go?”

The kangaroo said, “That’s a good question. It seems to me, they’ll just keep going higher until somebody remembers to shut the gate at night!”

Task 2: Underline the predicatives in this conversation and then practise it with a partner. KIM: The meat seems to be shrinking! SAM: Maybe there’s too much fat in it. KIM: What can I do? SAM: It’s probably the wrong kind of meat for a barbecue. The best thing is to cook it very slowly. KIM: You know, it smells strange too. SAM: Is it rotten? Let’s smell. Hey! This isn’t steak! KIM: So, what is it? SAM: Where did you get it? KIM: It was in the bottom of the fridge. SAM: Oh, no! That’s the dog’s meat! KIM: Are you sure? Task 3: Working with a partner, try to find as many different kinds of predicative in the reading passage as you can.

Step 4

Homework Learn the useful new words and expressions by heart.

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